The small agricultural hamlet of Ortahisar is centred around a rock-cut citadel that pokes dramatically over the landscape. On the northern outskirts of town is rock-cutHallacdere Monastery while to east is the peaceful Pancarlık Kilise with some unique frescoes.
Goreme Open Air Museum Just outside of Göreme village is the UNESCO protected site of Göreme Open-Air Museum; a monastery cluster of rock-cut churches and monk-cells that hold fabulous frescoes. The complex dates from the 10th to 12th centuries when...
Pasabagları The mushroom shaped rock needles of Paşabaǧ Valley have made it one of Cappadocia’s most famous landmarks. In the early Byzantine period a religious community who were disciples of St Simeon Stylites (a 4th century monk who spent his life on...
Kaymaklı Underground City Cappadocia’s underground cities first began to be chiselled out of the ground in the Bronze Age Hittite era but they are most famous for their early Byzantine history (6th and 7th centuries) when the region’s Christians took...
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